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The communists also regarded their government and their revolution not as local events in a national history but as epoch-making events in the history of the world and the development of humanity. Communism was an exportable commodity that could disrupt the political life of other nations, and throughout the history of the Soviet Union, its leaders sought to export its ideology and doctrines. Apart from what he termed "the commanding heights" of banking, heavy industry, …

…suffrage, of the Reichstag and the president. It also contained, however, certain crucial structural flaws that eventually allowed its liberal institutions to be overthrown. It provided for proportional representation for all elections. This system made it relatively easy for small parties to gain seats in the Reichstag. If the Weimar Republic were without these flaws it could have taken route much easier. However, there was much opposition to it that had never really taken affect.